In this fireside chat, HashiCorp Co-founder/CTO Armon Dadgar and Chief of Staff Kevin Fishner will talk with Mayfield Managing Director Navin Chaddha about building and scaling a distributed organization. Since its inception, HashiCorp has been predominantly remote, with employees spread across more than a dozen countries. HashiCorp believes that great systems and great people lead to great outcomes — but what do those pieces look like in practice?
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As organizations weigh continuing to work remote versus returning to offices, HashiCorp has documented how it built a hybrid work model, with some employees based in an office, and others distributed across many geographies and time zones. They recently released How HashiCorp Works, a website dedicated to making their implicit practices and culture explicit, which open sources the accumulated knowledge on building and scaling a distributed company.
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Kevin and Armon will discuss with Navin the lessons learned along the way, and answer attendee questions. Ahead of the session, we encourage attendees to visit How HashiCorp Works.
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Armon is co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, where he brings his passion for distributed systems to the world of DevOps tooling and cloud infrastructure. He has been named to Forbes and Inc.’s 30 under 30 lists for transforming enterprise tech. At HashiCorp, he has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects. Prior to HashiCorp, he held technical roles at Amazon and a mobile ad company. He received his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he met HashiCorp’s co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto.
Kevin Fishner is currently the Chief of Staff at HashiCorp, where he treats the company like a product. He joined the cloud infrastructure automation company in 2014 as the first business hire, going on to spin up the sales, solutions engineering, account management, and marketing teams. Afterwards, he spent 3 years building the product management and education groups as VP of Product. He's held the Chief of Staff role for the last 18 months. Kevin graduated from Duke with distinction in Philosophy for his thesis on The Ethics and Political Philosophy of Subconscious Advertising Techniques.
Navin Chaddha is Managing Director of Mayfield, who has led the firm over the last decade.  In March 2021, he was named as venture capitalist of the year by TiE, one of the largest entrepreneurship organizations in the world and has appeared on the Midas list for twelve years. As a VC, he has successfully invested in over 50 early-stage companies leading to 17 IPOs and 25 acquisitions. His investments have created over $60 billion in equity value and over 40,000 jobs. Navin has been involved in some notable IPOs of companies including Poshmark, Lyft, SolarCity, Matrimony.com, Makemytrip, Persistent Systems and acquisitions in the last year of CloudGenix by Palo Alto Networks, Nuvia by Qualcomm, Portworx by Pure Storage, and Volterra by F5 Networks. He is a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who co-founded three successful companies. He is an active philanthropist who supports education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and food scarcity groups. He holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.Â
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